Heidi Grau becomes new representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine

Swiss diplomat Heidi Grau has been appointed the new Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group.

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák said this in his speech during the opening session of the 26th OSCE Ministerial Council in Bratislava on Thursday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"I would like to express my gratitude for the excellent and valuable work of my Special Representative in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group – Ambassador Martin Sajdik – and also to officially announce the appointment of Ambassador Heidi Grau as his successor," he said.

As reported, Ambassador Sajdik was appointed the special representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine in June 2015 instead of Heidi Tagliavini.

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